This is still fairly far-off stuff. For one thing, while ordinary citizens can fly small model-size drones for fun, below 400 feet (as Neal Ungerleider and I did a few months ago in Central Park), the FAA hasn't quite sanctioned the use of these kinds of drones for commercial purposes yet—though it plans to have new regulations in place by 2015. "The hardest challenge of making this happen is going to be demonstrating to the standards of the FAA that is a safe thing to do," Bezos told 60 Minutes' Charlie Rose.

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Two questions for Amazon Prime Air:- How many people are going to lose their jobs/have their salaries reduced because of it.- Are the plastic packages reusable? Because in the video it seems like it is dropped at the customer's house for good. Think about the amount of trash this will create.